(Newport, 15-17 Oct 09)

Salve Regina University's 13th Annual Conference in Cultural and
Historic Preservation

The Art, Architecture, and Literature of the Gilded Age
October 15-17, 2009
Newport, RI

The term "Gilded Age" is but one of many, such as the Age of
Opulence, Age of Energy, the Brown, Mauve and White decades,
and the American Renaissance, that attempts to characterize a
particular period, c1860-c1910, in American history. Fueled by
the great prosperity after the Civil War, artists, writers,
designers, architects and patrons looked both internally and
abroad in an attempt to prove the United States equal to the
Old World. These efforts pervaded all forms of artistic media,
especially art, interior design, architecture, sculpture,
literature and photography. Artistic and literary sources for
the Gilded Age were wide ranging from the American Colonies to
European Renaissances to the orient, and resulted in multi-media
presentations of American supremacy. Salve Regina University's
13th Annual Conference on Cultural and Historic Preservation
will explore the application of these ideas to the art,
architecture, interior design, decoration, and literature of
the Gilded Age epoch.

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